Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] used to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | British bikes used to be kings of the road . |
| 2 | All the young men were bucks — a young buck in the old days used to be a gentleman . |
| 3 | But trouble-makers in the old days used to be left there until they died . |
| 4 | The first parts of these Latin names used to be used in naming cations . |
| 5 | Some of the English herds used to be milked in spite of the concentration on work and beef , but on the whole the Devon 's old milking traits have been neglected . |
| 6 | That 's how the old systems used to be with everything did n't they ? |
| 7 | In a publishing deal , the average splits used to be 50:50 . |
| 8 | And the yeast used to come to the erm Station at er in wicker baskets , in sacks , little tiny sacks used to be , little Hessian bags sort of thing , pressed into it har , you know what yeast is , you 've seen yeast have n't you ? |
| 9 | My gorgeous glossy dark locks used to be Mummy 's Delight when I was little , but now it was just wavy like the sea at Brighton and I wore it long with a flyaway fringe — well , it was flyaway if I could stick it solidly enough with gel or spray . |
| 10 | These tough little animals used to be swum across the narrow straits ( or Kyles , hence the alternative name ‘ Kyloe ’ for the breed ) between the islands and the mainland . |
| 11 | Taking the French system as an example , the huissier de justice engaged by the plaintiff will deliver the documents to the ministère public ; this is a body of officers attached to the court and primarily responsible for the public prosecution function in the criminal jurisdiction , and customarily and conveniently referred to as the parquet ( which literally means ‘ the well of the court ’ where these officers used to be placed ) . |
| 12 | Well these lights used to be quite easy , did n't mind being stopped by them . |
| 13 | Prices for these wines used to be considered advantageous , but no longer . |
| 14 | And the first three rows used to be a ha'penny and the the others used to be a penny . |
| 15 | The main home of the Irish polled cattle used to be in the north west . |
| 16 | ‘ In those days casual wayfarers used to be housed in the Institution . |
| 17 | So many famous families used to be living here . |
| 18 | The substantive work has consequently shifted from the party headquarters , where all decisions used to be made , to the conference hall and the corridors . |
| 19 | Flat fees used to be the rule , but since 1 January 1991 the Law Society has introduced a sliding scale of up to £1,000 : see Appendix B. The ISVA charge no fee . |
| 20 | ‘ It 's like all the Italian restaurants used to be , is n't it ? |
| 21 | As a rough guide two strands wound together make something approximately like three-ply in thickness and three together are usually reckoned to be about a four-ply. these fine industrial yarns used to be in the ‘ odds and ends ’ bins , but the manufacturers have caught on to the fact that they are popular with machine knitters , so now they can be bought under a brand name . |
| 22 | Morrissey 's Bar in Abbeyleix is like most Irish pubs used to be . |
| 23 | One of the finest examples used to be de Valois ' dance for the Three Comforters in Job . |
| 24 | Latin American nations used to be among the most prosperous of the nations of the South . |
| 25 | The development of new fonts used to be the business of companies like Linotype and Monotype , which built typesetters with proprietary technology . |
| 26 | Some African coins used to be attributed to the Numidian King Jugurtha ( 118–105BC ) , but the discovery of a hoard at Enna in Sicily in 1966 showed that these coins were actually contemporary with the period of democracy at Syracuse in 214–212BC , and the coins could therefore be redated and attributed to the Carthaginian expedition against Sicily in 213–210 BC . |
| 27 | The menu was 600 francs , and while the food was very simple it reminded me of what Provençal restaurants used to be like in the days before even the most ordinary of Provençal dishes became a " speciality " listed on the menu as a supplement at 750 francs . |
| 28 | Dorcas had led the way into the best kitchen , as charming a room as best kitchens used to be in farmhouses which had no parlours — the fire reflected in a bright row of pewter plates and dishes ; the sand-scoured deal tables so clean you longed to stroke them ; the salt-coffer in one chimney corner , and a three-cornered chair in the other , the walls being handsomely tapestried with flitches of bacon , and the ceiling ornamented with pendent hams . |
| 29 | In areas where other treponematoses used to be endemic , as was yaws in the West Indies , the eradication of the non-venereal treponemal disease has been followed by an upsurge in the incidence of syphilis , perhaps because there is an ecological niche to be filled . |
| 30 | The books of which Russian publishers used to be so proud academic research by specialists in culture-related fields are particularly vulnerable . |